Paul Smith <psmith@xxxxxxx> writes: > So I first created a cross-compiler for OLDSYS, configuring binutils > (2.22) and gcc (4.6.2) with --target=OLDSYS --with-sysroot=OLDSYSROOT > (and building and installing into a separate directory of course). > > Then I started trying to create the Canadian cross, configuring binutils > and GCC with --host=OLDSYS --target=NEWSYS --with-sysroot=NEWSYSROOT. > > When I do this, I can see it finding the OLDSYS compiler I built > previously, and binutils configures and builds fine and if I check, the > resulting binary is indeed a 32bit version and runs fine on OLDSYS. > > And, gcc appears to be working fine, for a while. Then I get this > error: > > OLDSYS-gcc -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -DCROSS_DIRECTORY_STRUCTURE -DNATIVE_CROSS \ > -W [...] -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o cpp gcc.o o [...] \ > ../libcpp/libcpp.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a > NEWSYS-gcc -dumpspecs > tmp-specs > /bin/sh: NEWSYS-gcc: command not found In order to build a Canadian Cross build-x-host-x-target, you need to first build the build-x-host cross-compiler and the build-x-target cross-compiler. In this case I think you have failed to build the build-x-target cross-compiler, which in your terminology would be --target=NEWSYS. Ian